Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC1 Publicly Available

[Woofmeister]

Available here.

Supported Operating Systems: Windows Vista; Windows Vista Business 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Enterprise 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Home Basic 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition

 

[MrChad]

This is the Release Candidate, NOT the final version.

 

[livingsacrifice]

Yep RC1, final version is stated for release in 1Q 2008. Still might be worth a try for some.

 

[emfiend]

I'm waiting to get home tonight to try it. Any ideas on how crowded the download servers are? What kind of speeds are to be expected through a standard cable modem?

 

[Mem]

You really should put RC BETA in your title,its not final version.

 

[Woofmeister]

Originally posted by: Mem
You really should put RC BETA in your title,its not final version.

Fixed. Thank you.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

As I posted in another thread, I lost my DVD drive as the driver couldn't start. Working with files was much improved though.

 

[jonmcc33]

So does this fix all the problems? Should I give Vista a round 4?

 

[Mem]

Remember guys this is RC beta,expect the final version to have changes and probably new fixes etc....

 

[emfiend]

Verdict for me is still undecided. File transfer across network is definitely improved.

The good:
1. the "Calculating time" thing is a lot faster. LAN transfers through explorer start up right away. (well, within about 5 seconds which could be from the HD just spinning up)
2. My gigabit lan seems to manage sustained transfers of about 200mbps. (Compared to the 70 kB I used to get, this is VERY good.)

The bad:
1. Playing video across a lan still stutters. AVI playback is horrible despite turning off all firewalls/antivirus, disable flow control, disable autotuning, disable remote compression.

So I guess 2 out of 3 aint so bad. I'm still holding out hope that these problems will be corrected in the final release.